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Definition of Corday
1. Noun. French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793).
Generic synonyms: Revolutionary, Revolutionist, Subversive, Subverter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corday
Literary usage of Corday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The narrative talent which makes his works on foreign lands such pleasant reading,
and his two novels <Charlotte Corday' and ' Le Magicien' always ..."
2. The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud (1920)
"She visits Charlotte Corday in prison—Death of Curtius—Madame ... who was slain
in his bath by Charlotte Corday on the 13th Qf July, 1793. ..."
3. The History of France by EYRE EVANS. CROWE (1866)
"The low doorway, through which Charlotte Corday entered, betrays its being of
another age. ... Charlotte Corday, before uncertain, started up at the word, ..."
4. The United Service (1902)
"Caen then became famous as the home of Charlotte Corday. ... Her father, Jacques
Francois de Corday, Sieur d'Armont. was a reduced country gentleman of ..."
5. Memoirs of the Sansons: From Private Notes and Documents (1688-1847) by Henri Sanson, Charles Henri Sanson (1876)
"CHARLOTTE Corday. ON July 13, at the very moment when the corpses of k the ...
There lived at Caen a girl named Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont. ..."
6. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1907)
"executed smoothly and forcibly in his dead " Marat," Baudry spoiled in his "
Charlotte Corday." The bath, the night-table with the inkstand on it, ..."
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